Hitec 55 on the ailerons and 50's on the elevator and rudder

Originally Posted by del

$37.50 in all white . Xcalibur is an excellent flying foamie , and a well engineered kit.

Dorin Luck

you should try the new hornet from budget rc!!! 37$ and it comes completely pre printed!!!

there is going to be a new design comming out soon from budget rc!!! and theres talk about a piviting motor mount which would help with nife edge!!!! keep your eye out

Originally Posted by kyle schoenrock

you should try the new hornet from budget rc!!! 37$ and it comes completely pre printed!!!

thats like comparing a 4 star 60 to an excaliber pattern plane

Originally Posted by Flatlandman

thats like comparing a 4 star 60 to an excaliber pattern plane

so you have tried the new budget rc hornet? what did you think?

so you have tried the new budget rc hornet? what did you think?

Kyle, the Hornet is a cool design, but its not the same type of airplane performance wise or wingloading wise. Its excellent at what it does, but its not what the original poster is/was asking for as I read it....

To the original poster, don't forget the 1st generation shockies. They can be built to sub 5ozs fairly easily and they fly well..... Funny to think that in the era of foamies, they are 'classics'.......

Originally Posted by Matchless

Kyle, the Hornet is a cool design, but its not the same type of airplane performance wise or wingloading wise. Its excellent at what it does, but its not what the original poster is/was asking for as I read it....

To the original poster, don't forget the 1st generation shockies. They can be built to sub 5ozs fairly easily and they fly well..... Funny to think that in the era of foamies, they are 'classics'.......

Yeah I know what you mean about those shockies. Idk why but I cant picture them being an osm indoor foamie. They seem to be monsters compared to what you and devin were flying in the hotel. Also is Jesky's byp sold anywhere? Thats what Devin's byp looked like... if it wasn't what was it?

Yes, Devin and Animal flew the same bipe, but I don't remember if/who will be selling it.

Actually the first shockies are the same size as what I was flying in the hotel both nights. Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will want to sell that design.... seemed like everyone there flew it and seemed to like it....

Yeah that would be sweet if you could get that kitted. What was your setup on that?

Charly, I ran the following on the little Indoor Imac Yak..

Motor - Axi 2203-46
Prop- APC 7x3.8
ESC - Castle Thunderbird 9
Batt- 2s 360mah BadDog (2DogRC)
Rcvr- Berg 4L
Servos- 4.7 gram on tail, 1 Futaba 3114 on ailerons

The airplanes I flew in the hotel (and in freestyle) weighed in at approx 4.2ozs rtf.

i got a fair bit of experience of indoor shockies now, and this is what i run and recommend.

get yourself some 3mm depron, make a plane about 34" span and about 34-35" long. make it any old shape you like, they fly fairly similar.

Dont use ANY CF. its heavy. If you are methodical and carefull, with 5m or so of kevlat thread, you can brace a shocky to the point where it is stronger than any CF shocky. Infact, the only CF i use is for the UC, and thats 1-1.5mm rod

Dont use wheels, make some depron wheel pants and wheels, decorate them to look good and glue them on. indoor, the floors are smooth enough to just use skids.

replace all wires with some enammeled copper wire, this drops loads of weight and is easy to do with a fine tipped soldering iron. hardwire everything

use kevlar pull pull on the surfaces.

to make the control horns, make 2 triangle depron peices, and a length of 1mm CF rod, glue the rod through the surface, and glue the triangles to the rod and surface, so it makes a light strong pull pull horn.

Dont use tape either! to make a nice hinge, cat half way through the depron, then fold it over, chamfer, and there you have it. i think tape weighs something like 2g per meter!

Use UHU POR, the the US equivelent, and use it sparingly. the tubes that came with the original shockies are more than enough for 1, maybe 1 1/2 shockies if used properly. use odourless CA only on motor mount.

Make the holes for the servos really small so they are a light push fit, if they are slightly loose, a drop of odourless will work

equipment wise, this is what i use

Hacker A10-15s
CC10
TP 2s (3s is too heavy and too powerful) 480
7x4 prop
Use any old 4.4g servo. there are better ones, but anything below this weight tend to be too fragile for my flying
a good quality light 4ch RX. im not sure what the US brands of RXs are so i cant comment

a 130g is easy to reach (thats i think about 4.8oz). 120 is great. the guys in europe were getting them 80-90g, but fond they had to add weight as they flew too light.

Ian

Originally Posted by Matchless

Charly, I ran the following on the little Indoor Imac Yak..

Motor - Axi 2203-46
Prop- APC 7x3.8
ESC - Castle Thunderbird 9
Batt- 2s 360mah BadDog (2DogRC)
Rcvr- Berg 4L
Servos- 4.7 gram on tail, 1 Futaba 3114 on ailerons

The airplanes I flew in the hotel (and in freestyle) weighed in at approx 4.2ozs rtf.

I flew this airplane in the hotel as well, and it flew great! That was, until Max turned the transmitter off on my while I was flying!!!!!!!

Thanks Banks! It was great to finally meet ya!

Heck yeah!! I had a blast at the hotel with you guys! I still havent figured out who about gave me a haircut when I sitting in the chair by the balcony tho! (is there any video of that night posted yet?)3D, I figured it was you who started this thread! does anyone have plans of foamys that can 3d well indoors? (pdf,dwg,eps,dfx) 3D and I have built several foamys but they just don't do indoors well. keep the suggestions coming. we want to fly indoors!